KARL OTFRIED See also:- MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
- MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
- MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
- MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
- MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
- MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
- KARL OTFRIED MULLER (1797-1840)
- MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
- MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
- MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)
MULLER (1797-1840)
, See also:German See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Brieg in See also:Silesia on the 28th of See also:August 1797
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He was educated partly in See also:Breslau, partly in See also:Berlin, where his See also:enthusiasm for the study of See also:Greek literature, See also:art and See also:history was fostered by the See also:influence of See also:Bockh
.
In 1817, after the publication of his first See also:work, Aegineticorum See also:liber, he received an See also:appointment at the Magdaleneum in Breslau, and in 1819 he was made See also:adjunct See also:professor of See also:ancient literature in the university of See also:Gottingen, his subject being the See also:archaeology and history of ancient art
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His aim was to See also:form a vivid conception of Greek See also:life as a whole; and his books and lectures marked an See also:epoch in the development of Hellenic studies
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See also:Miller's position at Gottingen being rendered unpleasant by the See also:political troubles which followed the See also:accession of Ernest See also:Augustus (See also:duke of Cumber-See also:land) to the See also:throne of See also:Hanover in 1837, he applied for permission to travel; and in 1839 he See also:left See also:Germany
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In See also:April of the following See also:year he reached See also:Greece, having spent the See also:winter in See also:Italy
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He investigated the remains of ancient See also:Athens, visited many places of See also:interest in See also:Peloponnesus, and finally went to See also:Delphi, where he began excavations
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He was attacked by intermittent See also:fever, of which he died at Athens on the 1st of August 184o
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Among his See also:historical See also:works the foremost See also:place belongs to his Geschichten hellenischer Stdmme and See also:State: Orchomenos und See also:die Minyer (182o), and Die Dorier (1824; Eng. trans. by H
.
Tufnell and Cornewall See also:Lewis, 183o, including the See also:essay Ober die Makedonier, on the settlements, origin and See also:early history of the Macedonians)
.
He introduced a new See also:standard of accuracy in the cartography of ancient Greece
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In 1828 he published Die Etrusker, a See also:treatise on See also:Etruscan antiquities
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His Prolegomena zu einer wissenschaftlichen Mythologie (1825; Eng. trans., J
.
Leitch, 1844), in which he avoided the extreme views of G
.
F
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Creuzer and C
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A
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See also:Lobeck, prepared the way for the scientific investigation of myths; while the study of ancient art was promoted by his Handbuch der Arciidologie der Kunst (1830; Eng. trans., J
.
Leitch, 1847), and Denkmdler der See also:alien Kunst (1832), which he wrote in association with C Osterley
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In 184o appeared in See also:England his History of ih: Iuerature of Ancient Greece; the See also:original German work from which had been translated being issued in Germany in 1841 (4th ed. by E
.
Heitz, 1882)
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Chapters i.–xxii. were translated by See also:Sir See also:George Cornewall Lewis; chapters See also:xxiii.–See also:xxxvi. by J
.
W
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See also:Donaldson, who carried the work down to the taking of See also:Constantinople by the See also:Turks
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It is still one of the best books on the subject
.
See also:- MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
- MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
- MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
- MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
- MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
- MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
- MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
- MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
- MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
- MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)
Muller also published an admirable See also:translation of the See also:Eumenides of See also:Aeschylus with See also:introductory essays (1833), and new See also:editions of See also:Varro (1833) and Festu: (1839)
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See memoir of his life by his See also:brother Eduard, prefixed to the See also:posthumous edition of K
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0
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Miller's Kleine deutsche Schriften (1847); F
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Lucke, Erinnerungen an K
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0
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Muller (Gottin en, 1841); F
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See also:Ranke, K
.
O
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Muller, ein Lebensbild (Berlin, 1870; C
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See also:Bursian, Geschichte der klassischen Philologie in Deutschland (1883), ii. xoo7–1028; C
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Dilthey, Otfried Muller (Gottingen, 1898); E
.
See also:Curtius, Altertum and Gegenwart; and J
.
W
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Donaldson's essay On the Life and Writings of Karl Otfried Muller in vol. i. of the See also:English translation of the history of Greek literature
.
A See also:biography composed from his letters was published by O. and E
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See also:Kern, K
.
0
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Muller, Lebensbild in Briefen an See also:seine Eltern (1908); see also J
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E
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See also:Sandys, Hist. of Classical Scholarship, iii
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(1908), 213-216
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